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The Best Gaming PC Money Can Buy

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the don't-we-post-this-every-few-months dept.

SlappingOysters writes "Gameplayer has gone live with their best PC hardware configurations for Q1 2009. They've broken it into three tiers depending on the investor's budget. And while the prices are regional, it is comparative across the globe. The site has also detailed the 10 Hottest PC Games of 2009 to unveil the software on the horizon which may seduce gamers into an upgrade."

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  1. What a crock... by FortKnox · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Budget machine has a quad core? And is almost a grand?

    Tom's Hardware does these, and the budget is usually closer to the $600 mark, with the mid range around $1200.

    And the fact that they put two optical BD burners on the extreme one (one on each page) makes me think that this article was slapped together instead of fully investigated. Where's the benchmarks? The proof that you built a good machine?

    Looks like a buncha kids opened up newegg and built themselves machines in their head...

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    1. Re:What a crock... by ZirbMonkey · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Tom's is way better. If I want to upgrade my PC or video card, they actually do proper benchmarks and realistic budgets. I may never have triple SLI, but only because I don't feel like dropping another $500 on video cards for relatively minimal fps gains.

      I dropped a grand on a new i7 system last week. Primarily because I was tied of my old Opteron 170 rig, but a good deal because I'd been influenced by the Tom's hardware midprice build. A grand is not "budget."

    2. Re:What a crock... by El+Capitaine · · Score: 5, Informative

      I agree, Blu-Ray is not really necessary for a gaming machine (are any PC games Blu-Ray yet?) And to have two BD burners...(going from first post - article is slashdotted)...this seems less like a gaming rig and more like a video production machine.

      Also, Blu-Ray is abbreviated to BD, for Blu-Ray Disc. All of the abbreviations for the format use BD, not BR, such as BD-J, BD+, BD-ROM, BD-R.

      "Blu-ray, also known as Blu-ray Disc (BD), is the name of a next-generation optical disc format jointly developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA)"
      Taken from http://www.blu-ray.com/info/

    3. Re:What a crock... by Fross · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yo dawg, I heard you like burning, so we put a burner in your burner so you can burn while you burn.

  2. Pffft. by XPeter · · Score: 5, Funny

    These PC's are low-end when compared to my overclocked Commodore 64.

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  3. 6GB of ram? by wjh31 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    last time i checked, the i7 boards had 6 ram slots, for an easy 12GB. Also im pretty sure its possible to find boards with atleast 3 PCI-E slots, so they are missing an extra graphics card there. 6 SATA slots is also do-able, so with one to the BD burner, that leaves 5 for a raid 5 SSD config to give 1TB of SSD. And only one screen? 3 cards means 6 screens, i feel they missed some obvious extras

  4. next up on article series ... by heitikender · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... best web-server hardware configurations money can buy, also 10 hottest server apps for 2009.

  5. Re:FFS by wisty · · Score: 5, Funny

    In 1 years time, it will be worth 40% of what they paid for it. That's an investement, isn't it? Heck, it's not even a bad investement these days.

  6. Re:The thing about these machines is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Your eyes can only pickup 80fps anyway; you wouldn't know if it was 100 or 10,000 fps unless the fps counter didn't say.

    It doesn't matter what your eyes can see. It's about responsiveness. Faster rendering makes the game more responsive. See, we live in an analog world which has essentially infinite FPS. The closer a game gets to that then the better it feels because it will respond at the exact microsecond you do something. It does make a very real difference.

    Now granted many people don't care otherwise there wouldn't be people like you that think "80 FPS is enough for anyone." Gunny how that number keeps creeping upwards. First it was 24 FPS (because that was all the eye could see), then 30, then 60, now you're saying 80. LOL

  7. Re:FFS by Greyfox · · Score: 5, Funny

    Perhaps their belief that it's "investing" is an indication of why we're currently in the middle of an economic crisis.

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  8. Re:The thing about these machines is by timster · · Score: 5, Funny

    See, we live in an analog world which has essentially infinite FPS.

    The Planck time allows for only around 1.86x10^43 fps, which is nowhere even close to infinity.

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  9. Re:What games don't run in 64-bit Windows? by DoofusOfDeath · · Score: 5, Funny

    Seriously, I'm honestly curious. I'm a huge PC gamer and I run Vista 64-bit.

    No offence, but maybe a Wii Fit would be a good investment, then? I'm just sayin...

  10. 64.0 fps should be enough for anyone! by TravisO · · Score: 5, Funny

    64.0 fps should be enough for anyone!